Explore Protocol Design jobs in blockchain and crypto. Find positions requiring Protocol Design skills.
Daily open opportunities, newly observed postings, hiring breadth, and normalized monthly compensation for jobs in this pillar.
As of 2026-10-19
Distinct employers
+1 vs prior week
7 days vs previous 7 days
Remote pay is separated from onsite and hybrid pay so expensive cities do not distort the remote benchmark.
Remote
Limited evidence4 salaries from 3 employers
12 open jobs at 11 hiring companies
Onsite + hybrid
Limited evidence6 salaries from 5 employers
8 open jobs at 5 hiring companies
| Country market | Open jobs | Hiring companies | Median | Middle 50% | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 3 | $20.4K/mo | $17.9K/mo – $22.7K/mo | 5 salaries from 4 employersLimited |
Open jobs are current; salary evidence covers the past 12 months and also uses closed postings. Every place rolls up through its canonical city, region, country, and continent hierarchy exactly once.
Open roles, employers, and newly listed jobs by day
Historical context; use the work-market split above for current pay
Earlier open counts are estimated from observation dates. Offline postings are never inferred open for more than 90 days; new daily samples are exact snapshots.
SatoshiLabs Group·5 days ago
Czech bitcoin-first technology holding developing open-source hardware and software for digital-asset security, self-custody, Bitcoin access, and secure hardware.
Zodl·2 months ago
Zodl is a Zcash-powered mobile wallet focused on private, self-custodial cryptocurrency payments and asset management.
Funding
OneBalance·2 months ago
OneBalance helps developers build chain-abstracted applications by providing unified balance management and one-click cross-chain execution.
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
Investors
Paxos Labs·3 months ago
Institutional-grade infrastructure for embedded on-chain financial products, including branded stablecoin issuance, stablecoin movement, and yield activation.
Funding
Doppler·3 months ago
Doppler is a token launch protocol coming to Solana (and live on Base, Monad, and Ethereum Mainnet) that lets teams configure tokenomics, launch with real onchain price discovery via dutch-auction dynamic bonding curves, and graduate to deep liquidity on DEXs like Uniswap. It serves token issuers and builders—from memecoin creators to protocols and RWA issuers—through an all-in-one app and a TypeScript SDK for building custom capital markets products.
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
Investors
Lightning Labs·3 months ago
Lightning Labs develops open-source software and non-custodial financial services that power faster, lower-cost Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network.
Funding
Citrea·3 months ago
Citrea scales Bitcoin using zero-knowledge rollup technology, enabling programmable applications while maintaining Bitcoin security.
Investors
Monad Foundation·7 months ago
Monad Foundation supports the growth, adoption, governance, and decentralization of the Monad Layer-1 blockchain protocol.
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